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Bill Gates says competition with Google is fun.

Kirby Witmer [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, November 16, 2006
17 years ago2,278 views

<<Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) – Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. have a lot of ``overlap'' in the products they are developing and the employees they want to hire, heightening the rivalry between the two, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.

``There's differences, but a lot of similarities too,'' Gates, 51, said today at an event at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California. ``This competition is a fun one for both companies.'' >>

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOC1r83fEOdE&refer=home

heh. I doubt wether he does actually. :)-

Reto Meier [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Nah, these days I doubt he really cares. Ever since he stepped down as CEO and is soon to be stepping down as Chairman, I think his day-to-day concern with competitors is pretty low.

In truth, these days Bill less about Microsoft, and more about the 'Bill and Melinda Gates foundation'. Which seems to make for a much more chilled out Bill, I suppose being one of the largest private benefactors in the world agrees with him :)

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Found this post when about to post another one.

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/2675/tiy6.jpg

Mr. Gates said on a Charlie Rose Show on November 15(that's yesterday),
"Google Earth is fantastic; what they do is free and a huge benefit to all."
For the full interview, please go to eWeek(in the "links" section).

Photo from Wikipedia by Herkko Hietanen, and the special little bubble effect by SayWhat.

links:
http://eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2060022,00.asp
http://gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/11/bill_gates_says_goog.html
http://googlified.com/2006bill-gates-google-earth-is-fantastic

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